We present a gel route to process highly oriented conjugated polymer films and fibers. The incorporation of hexafluoroisopropanol, a strong and stable dipolar group, to the polythiophene backbone enhances the solubility ...

Production of materials which are limited by the amount available on the earth's surface follow a growth curve similar to the Avrami equation which governs the process of nucleation and growth. This thesis will analyze ...

Concerns over global warming potential and environmental degradation have created a demand for accurate assessment of the impact of various products and processes. Life cycle assessment (LCA), a quantitative assessment ...

Fretting fatigue is defined as damage resulting from small magnitude (0.5-50 microns) displacement between contacting bodies where at least one of the bodies has an applied bulk stress. The applicability and limits of a ...

A continuum thermodynamic model is developed for the treatment of interfaces in materials. This phase-field model includes energetic contributions from chemical, structural and electrostatic effects. A small parameter set ...

Bismuth Telluride and its solid solutions are currently front running thermoelectric materials because of their high figure of merit. When processed via mechanical alloying to obtain nanocrystalline structures, their ...

The ability of block copolymers to self-assemble into ordered microstructures has attracted much interest both from a pure scientific perspective and for their potential in numerous industrial applications. The microphase ...

Ligand-stabilized nanoparticles (NPs) assembled into long-range ordered arrays, also known as "nanoparticle supracrystals (NPSCs)", are expected to provide a powerful general platform for designing new types of solids. In ...

The throughput and efficiency of membrane separations make polymer filtration membranes an important resource for the pharmaceutical, food and wastewater treatment industries. Nanofiltration (NF) membranes fill an important ...

A study of the behavior of nanoparticles in the presence of solvent vapors is presented. Millimeter-scale films of gold nanoparticles, one nanometer thick, are treated with solvent vapors at various temperatures and the ...